Combined telephone-moutpiece guard and advertising device.



- 0. ROSS. COMBINED TELEPHONE MOUTHPIECE GUARD AND ADVERTISING DEVICE.APPLICATION FILED MAR.14, 1913.

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the hinge flange p. By means of a suitable 'tin'irnn STATES PATENTorrion CHARLES ROSS, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

COMBINED TELEPHONE-MOUTHPIECE Jl ,ooasos.

' Application filed March 14,

To all whom 1'2. may concern Be it known that T, Clmnnns Boss, a citizenof the United States, and a resident of Chicago, county of (look, Stateof Illinois, have invented certain new and useful I m-- provements inCombined T8l81)l'l0ll-l\l()lli.llpiece Guards and AdvertisingDevices,.of which the. following is a specification.

My invention relates to telephone transmitter 1noutl1piece guards and tomeans for Among the principal objects of my invention are the following:to provide an improved guard for telephone transmitters and to provideimproved means for operating and supporting the same; to provide animproved guard of the above character adapted for advertising purposesand to provide details of improvement tending to increase the efficiencyand serviceability of a guard of the above'character.

To accomplish the foregoing and other useful ends my invention relatesto means hereinafter set forth and claimed.

In the accon'ipanying drawing Figure 1 is a side view of the guard, thetelephone mouth-piece being shown merely dotted; Fig. 2 is a front Viewof the same, and Fig. 3 is a side view of the device with the guardlowered.

The guard, as indicated, comprises a frame A and a lid B. The frame ismade in a single piece of suitable material T shaped. This piece iscurved to fit the neck of the mouth-piece, as shown, and the ends a andb are bent, as indicated, to form two approximately parallel sections.These ends are pierced to receive a bolt 0 clamping the same in positionthrough the medium of the nut f. The. other arm 9 of the frameis curvedto fit the mouth-piece in a longitudinal direction, and the end thereofis curved to fit the rim of the mouth-piece, as shown. Pro jecting fromthe arm 9 there are two lugs, which are folded upwardly, as indicated,to receive the hinge of the lid B. This lid'is composed of a circularsection j and a sup'- porting arm is. The circular section j 1s made intwo circular parts I and m, suitably clamped or glued together. Betweensald plates Z and on there are held the heads of a pin and a bolt 77,and 0, respectively. The. shanks of these devices it and 0 protrudethrough suitable perforations in the plate m and are received insuitable apertures on Specification ofLetters Patent.

GUARD AND ADVERTISING DEVICE.

Patented Apr. 21 .1914.

1913. Serial No. 754,208.

out (1, the lid B is clamped in position and prevented from turning bythe pin a. The flange 7) curves back beyond the pin 0, as

shown, and acts as a finger guard or catch to assist in lowering the lidB without snapping it down when the latter is unlatched. The lower endof the flange is folded over around the pivot pin 1", the extreme end ofwhich terminates in an arm a extending toward the rear, as shown. Thisarm 8 is adapted to engage the latch 25, which holds the lid B inposition, as shown in Fig. 1. The latch t is pivoted between twoadditional lugs u, which support the pin 1-. The lid B may he unlatchedfrom the position indicated in Fig. 1 by pressing the latch t;

It may then be rotated by the pin 1', thus clearing the arm 8. The twoplates which form'the lid B may be of any suitable material and is madeplaimas indicated, for advertising purposes. Similarly, the back of thelid is made plain to also receive adver tising matter on either side ofthe member Z \Vith the above device anyone who is holding telephoniccommunication with another arty may close the lid and yet hea what t eother party is saying without himself being heard if he wishes to speakto someone else nearby.

It will be understood that the latch 15 may be made of any desiredheight, as for example, of a height to clear the front wall of thetransmitter.

What I claim as my invention is: v

1. A telephonemouth-piece guard having a body with means for clampingthe guard to the mouth-piece and a lid suitably hinged. on said body.said body consisting of a single T-shaped piece one arm of which isfolded to conform with the neck of the mouthpiece and the other armfolded to conform with the flaring curve of the mouthpiece andapproximately at right angles to the first arm, and a latch alsosupporting on said body for latching the lid when raised.

2. A telephone mouth-piece guard having for latching the lid whenraised, the hinge of said lid consisting of a single piece having meansnear-its center for supporting the lid and having one end folded toreceive the hinged pin of the lid, and forming also a latch engagingmember, the other end of said piece bent to form a finger guard.

3. A telephone mouth-piece guard having a body with means for clampingthe guard to the mouth-piece and a lid suitably hinged said body on saidbody, said body consisting of a sin gle T-shaped piece, one arm of whichis folded to conform with the neck of the mouthpiece and the other armfolded to conform with the flaring curve of the mouth-piece andapproximately at right angles to the first arm, and a latch alsosupporting on said body for latching the lid when raised, the hinge ofsaid lid consisting of a single piece having means near its center forsupporting the lid and havin one end folded to receive the hinged pin 0the lid, and forming also a latch engaging member, the other end of saidpiece bent to form a finger guard, the body having, integral with it onesetibf flanges for supporting the lid hinged pin and another setsupporting the latch hinged pm. I

Signed by me at Chicago, Cook county, Illinois, this 11 day of March,1913.

CHARLES ROSS. Witnesses:

B. GARBER, ARTHUR J. RAY.

